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Navigating Welfare Contradictions in Zoo‐Supported Conservation Activities

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern zoos and aquariums focus on providing the best possible welfare for animals in their care. At the same time, they support or participate in field conservation activities, which aim to protect animal populations in the wild or reintroduce animals from human care to wild habitats.
Heather Browning, David M. Powell
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Apex predators exploit advantageous snow conditions across hunting modes

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Advantageous snow conditions—in terms of snow depth and density—are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. In a warming climate, the knock‐on effects of a diminishing snowpack may reduce the hunting success of multiple large carnivore species.
Benjamin K. Sullender, Taylor R. Ganz, Ross Mower, Jessica D. Lundquist, Brian N. Kertson, Thomas M. Newsome, Aaron J. Wirsing, Laura R. Prugh   +7 more
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Understanding natal emigration in group‐living carnivores

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Dispersal is a key ecological and evolutionary process, yet drivers of variation in emigration under human‐modified conditions remain understudied. Using a novel genetic approach applied to harvested grey wolves in Idaho, USA, we found that prey availability and population density shape natal emigration patterns in a cooperative breeder.
Kathleen M. Petersen, Joel M. Tebbenkamp, Matthew A. Mumma, David E. Ausband   +3 more
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Habitat Features, Coyotes, and Humans Drive Diel Activity Variation Among Sympatric Mammals

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We found that multiple mammal species show considerable variation in diel activity in response to several factors, with biotic variables (habitat features and the presence of coyotes Canis latrans) having the strongest overall effects. Our results have important implications for trophic dynamics. Future studies will need to account for these underlying
Nathan J. Proudman, Maximilian L. Allen
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Anticoagulant Rodenticides Contribute to a Decline in an Urban Carnivore

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) have been shown to negatively affect carnivores globally and are closely tied to human activity and development. We examined drivers of annual survival in bobcats persisting on a residentially developed barrier island over 16 years.
Meghan P. Keating, Catherine M. Bodinof Jachowski, Duane R. Diefenbach, James D. Jordan, Nicole M. Nemeth, Thomas R. Rainwater, Gregory K. Yarrow, David S. Jachowski   +7 more
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Prey Partitioning in a Diverse Carnivore Community: Implications for Reintroduced Fishers in Washington

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Using fecal DNA metabarcoding, we quantified dietary overlap among reintroduced fishers and sympatric coyotes, bobcats, and Pacific martens in Washington's North Cascades. Niche overlap was substantial for common prey but varied with body size, revealing fine‐scale resource partitioning that may limit fishers' access to energetically efficient prey ...
Kayla A. Shively, Ellen M. Reese, Jason I. Ransom, Jeffrey C. Lewis, Tara Chestnut, David O. Werntz, Taal Levi, Laura R. Prugh   +7 more
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Distribución regional y abundancia del lince (Linx rufus escuinape) y el coyote (Canis latrans cagottis) por medio de estaciones olfativas: un enfoque espacial

Ciencia Ergo Sum, 2002
Se analizó, a través de estaciones olfativas, la frecuencia de presencia de lince y coyote en seis unidades de vegetación en el sur de la cuenca de México.
Octavio Monroy, Alejandro Velázquez
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Lodge moraines: a common yet underreported end‐moraine type—a review

Boreas, EarlyView.
Lodge moraines are a distinct genetic type of end moraine formed by submarginal accretion of subglacial till; they are some of the largest end moraines in the world. Although underreported in the literature, they are of equal importance to push, dump and hummocky end moraines. End moraines are formed at glacier ice margins and show the extent of former
Mark D. Johnson, Jose Luis Antinao, Ívar Örn Benediktsson, David A. Grimley, Carrie E. Jennings, Henry M. Loope, Tom V. Lowell, David M. Mickelson, Peter L. Moore, Thomas A. Nash, J. Elmo Rawling III, Jamey Stutz   +11 more
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Monitoring wildlife health for diseases with visible signs by integrating camera traps with marked individuals

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Monitoring wildlife health is essential for conservation and management, wildlife and livestock welfare, and public health in a One Health framework. Yet, wildlife health monitoring often requires long‐term fieldwork and intensive sampling, which can be costly or logistically challenging, especially for remote, rare, or elusive populations. To
Jonathan Tichon, Roi Lapid, Roni King, Elyasaf Freiman, Orr Spiegel, Erez Baruchi, Aviam Atar, Shirli Bar‐David, David Saltz   +8 more
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